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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the woman make such a strong plea at the beginning of ”I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I will Tell You All About It”?
(a) She is dying and wants her family around her.
(b) Her son is dying, and she wants her husband there with him.
(c) Her husband has died, and she is in need.
(d) Her husband is dead, and she is dying.

2. In "The Greatest Personal Privation," what does Mary Jones think is the greatest personal privation?
(a) Not having her two slaves, Patience and Phoebe.
(b) Having to sell her slaves to others.
(c) Not having a new dress every season.
(d) Having to leave her home and move north.

3. In "Ghazal," to what does the speaker compare to the stealing of someone’s name?
(a) Working in the fields and stripping the stalks of stolen crops.
(b) Attacking and robbing someone at gunpoint.
(c) Pickpocketing a naive tourist.
(d) Stealing money from a bank or precious jewels from a safe.

4. In "Realm of Shades," what does the speaker wonder when she thinks about our shadows on the ground?
(a) How many shadows have passed this way?
(b) How much more will we bury in the earth?
(c) What hides in the shadows?
(d) Where do shadows come from?

5. In "Hill Country," the speaker describes someone as he travels where?
(a) To the river from a high peak.
(b) To the mountains from the city.
(c) Down from high above in the hills and the place where he is surrounded by peace and quiet.
(d) Down from a high bridge to still water.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "A Man's World," when the world is shown, to what is it compared?

2. In "Declaration," an unnamed ‘he’ has sent officers to do what?

3. How does "Ghazal" end?

4. What is NOT a reason why not being able to read or write hinders the paying of a pension deserved to former black Civil War soldiers?

5. In "Realm of Shades," those described in this poem are focused on what?

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